Sunday, October 30, 1988 ·After midnight
The cellar door: Gretchen is killed, Frank is shot
Donnie, Gretchen and two friends ride to Roberta Sparrow’s house. Seth and Ricky, burgling it, attack them. Roberta stands in the road; Frank’s car swerves to miss her and hits Gretchen. Donnie shoots Frank through the right eye.
Who is there
In Sparrow's terms
- Ensurance Trap
- A situation engineered by the Manipulated Dead that leaves the Living Receiver no choice but to return the Artifact. In the film: the death of Gretchen.
- Cellar Door
- The phrase Ms Pomeroy calls the most beautiful in the English language - and the door Donnie enters to find Gretchen at Grandma Death’s house on the final night.
- Manipulated Dead
- People who die inside the Tangent Universe. They gain the power to move through time and contact the Living Receiver through water. Frank and Gretchen are the Manipulated Dead of the film.
- Metal
- The second element of time travel. Artifacts are always made of metal - in the film, the jet engine.
What happens at this moment.